I want the site to the company that will sell me a 727. :-) Ed 300E
On 14/12/2007, Timothy Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a kid at heart (who never had a train set?) so I love trains! > > Often have featured buying an old passenger car and turning it into a > stationary house. > > But then there's a company that'll deliver and renovate a 727 as a home > also. They even mount it on 30' support and you can rotate it > electrically. > > Oh, they're called "traction sanders" and you can buy them for buses, > tractor-trailers and commercial trucks. > > > From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:40:25 -0600 > > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Stopping > > > > What sort of freaked me out on the wiki -- seeing these trains go by so > > often each day at work -- is reading that the contact point between the > > wheels/truck and the rails is the size of a dime. That is really small > > surface area. > > > > Got a job offer when I retired from the Coast Guard -- a railroad was > > sucking up retiring USCG officers to be dispatchers [ A background of > doing > > Search and Rescue, or point trains in the right direction -- same > mindset]. > > Didn't take it (insert laughter here) because the job required that I > MOVE > > TO IOWA (where I now live). I was living in DC when the job offer came. > > > > Duh! > > > > > > > > On Dec 13, 2007 10:26 PM, Timothy Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> "Sanders"... those were in use on buses at one time. Not sure if LD > trucks > >> were equipped. Seems like I remember hearing about some car that was > >> equipped with sanders also. (Citreon?) > >> > >>> From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > >>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:18:10 -0600 > >>> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>, "M. Mitchell > >> Marmel" > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Stopping > >>> > >>> Totally off-subject, I wandered into a wiki about trains today. (My > >> office > >>> window looks out on a set of railroad tracks 50' away, and a train > comes > >> by > >>> every three minutes.) > >>> > >>> Modern locomotives have a nozzle that shoots sand down on the wheels > >>> (trucks, for the railroad politically correct) to add traction when > the > >>> computer senses that the wheels are slipping. > >>> > >>> Why can't Benz come up with something like that? Better yet, why > didn't > >> I > >>> invent it? > >>> > >>> D. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Dec 13, 2007 10:12 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> <<Low friction road surface is the situation you _don't_ want engine > >>>> braking. All four wheels working together is the safest way to slow > >>>> down. The extra braking force on the rear wheel will cause them to > >>>> lockup early.>> > >>>> > >>>> Precisely why at very low speeds on ice or shiny packed snow, > downhill > >> to > >>>> boot, with a stop sign at the bottom, the trans should be in neutral > so > >>>> the rear > >>>> wheels aren't pushing. 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